It's Not Really A Brilliant Day For Any Of The Parties, Is It?

[-Talbot-]

Greens and UKIP, millions of votes for very few seats.
SNP, lots of seats but no hand in the government.
Libs.....lol
Labour, not even close

Conservatives, will struggle throughout their term.

[VHG]

I think it was a brilliant day for the SNP and Tories.

SNP go from 6 seats to 56 which is great in anyone's book.

And for the Tories it is very rare for the party in power to increase their number of seats, particularly at a time of austerity where the Coalition have had to make so many cuts.

The Tories have had a to face a torrent of criticism about the cuts, the NHS, the "bedroom tax", the deficit and so on, and yet the public has stood by them because they know overall it has to be done.

I think the leaders of the Tories and SNP will be VERY pleased how the night has gone.

[Retrochic]

As far as I'm concerned it has been a brilliant day as those jokers (Labour) who ruined the country with overspending now have no chance of having a second go at it. The Cons get a second go and UKIP got over 3 million votes - 25% of all the votes and twice as many as the SNP,which will set them up as a serious contender in 2020 which was their aim.

[Old_Geezer]

I doubt many "know it has to be done" since it doesn't. They are more likely to think that they have to watch out for the bad bits and protest as appropriate, but think the Tories are slightly preferable to the alternative.

[New Judge]

Many people do believe it has to be done, OG. That’s why the electorate have elected half of their MPs under the Tory banner. If you believe it does not have to be done, what would be your alternative? The Labour Party and the LibDems offered alternatives which suggested it did not have to be done and they were soundly rejected.

On a lighter note, the result of the night has got to be in the Hampstead and Kilburn constituency where former singer, the late Ronnie Carrol (who died on April 13th) polled 113 votes.